Recent content by DanHeidel

I can't give a solid answer for the number of portraits since I don't know what the art costs on Mongoose's side are. Obviously, they'll only bother doing it if they can at least turn a modest profit on it. 12-15 male and 12-15 female human portraits and maybe 8-ish portraits for each of the...

In all seriousness, I have a great group of players who don't consciously try to exploit that sort of metagaming. (They will however, 100% give me crap about it. Just last session, in the CoC module Viral, the players were exploring the Sicilian seaside town prior to the main adventure start...

I'm fully aware that there's plenty of portrait packs out there. The problem is that the vast majority of them are fantasy themed or aimed specifically at urban cyberpunk style sci-fi which is often a poor fit for Traveller unless you're specifically doing that setting in game. And even if the...

Don't worry everyone, they'll be back up any second now.

I asked over on the main forum if anything like this existed and came up blank, so I'd like to make a product request. Can Mongoose make a PDF pack of NPC portraits? Just the front view headshots like the ones in the module NPC descriptions/statblocks, preferably by the same artist(s) that...

I figured as much. It's just confusing to me that the bieest discrepancies are at longer distances where there's not going to be any maneuvering. Once you're past a few hundred km, it's a drag race. Right, I forgot it finishes at rest to the original frame of reference.

Has Mongoose ever released packs of portraits for use in games? I'm running into situations in a lot of the modules where some of the NPCs will have portraits but not all. I'd love to be able to have a pool of character portraits done by the same artist(s) so that I can have portraits to...

I was looking at space combat cheat sheets to prep for my game and came across this one: https://d1vzi28wh99zvq.cloudfront.net/pdf_previews/193820-sample.pdf I wanted to combine that sheet with another one with better graphic design and immediately ran headlong into the question: Mother...

Same here, actually. I haven't read the Rebellion beyond the high level plot developments but the impression I had gotten was that while highly disruptive, it was an event far short in severity from the Dark Age. My interpretation of Virus was that while the devastation in the cores of the...

That's a a totally valid way to do it, of course! Personally, I'm brand new to Traveller and the setting and while I find a lot of little gems scattered around the 3rd Imperium setting, I'm pretty meh on it in general. Things I don't like about it: - The bulk of the Imperium isn't...

As of now, Travellerworlds is back up but the wiki is still down.

I think the core idea of sapient, technological herbivores who have a crippling fear of meat eaters is a solid one and potentially quite interesting. The problem is that their entire culture seems to be built to maintain a boring homogeneity. Also their high TL and strong space military...

I'll second or eighth the request for more Hiver material. I just got the corebooks a couple weeks ago and was familiarizing myself with the material for an upcoming short test campaign. Going through the various powers it's all: - OK, The Imperium is if the US and ancient Rome had a baby...

I know there's a backup site for travellermap.com. (travellermapbackup.azurewebsites.net) Does anyone know if there's something similar for the wiki?